What is environment? Many people have different definitions for it. My own definition of environment is a place or person that can be in certain conditions that could be seen as good or bad. That’s only depending of how people look at it. For example people that live in areas like Overland Park, Olathe, and other rich areas think that Kansas City, KS its not a safe city for them or other people to live since all they see in the news is about shooting, crimes, gangs and other dangerous things. But they don’t look at how Kansas city KS has improved over the years.

To me Kansas city KS is a city that is a good and a bad place to live because I’ve experienced many things that were good and bad in my life. I’ve lived in Kansas City for six years. When I first moved to Kansas City I wanted to go back to Lexington independence, because of the things that they told me about Kansas City and how bad it was. I was one of those people that thought wrong right away without giving Kansas City a try. But when I got to see that Kansas City wasn’t that bad of a city I was happy. While living in Kansas City it never changed my personality at all because I knew from my right and wrong I took decision that may have not been the best but I never changed my personality. What I like about Kansas City is the diversity that it has. They’re so many ethnicities’ that make this city special. To me it made it special to live in Kansas City because I got to meet new people that I became great friends with. I also got to see many traditions from different ethnicity’s that were awesome to see. I also liked how they still kept their cultural values of life in a city that was dangerous What I didn’t like about Kansas City back then was that there was so much violence because of gangs. Gangs were primarily the cause of making Kansas City a dangerous place to live. What I also didn’t like about Kansas city is the graffiti that houses, stores, schools, etc. had because...

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...b. Organizational Environment
Organizational Environment: those forces outside its boundaries that can impact it. Forces can change over time and are made up of Opportunities and Threats. (7)
The Organizational environment refers to the forces that can make an impact. Forces made up opportunities and threats. Organizations do not exist in isolation. It works with the overall environment. Scholars have divided these environmental factors into two main parts as.
Internal Environment
External Environment (8)
c. Internal Environment
The internal environment consists of the inherent competencies of the firm and the structure of its internal systems and processes. It is imperative for the organization to conduct an internal analysis to obtain a clear picture regarding its strengths and weaknesses. This helps the organization to design suitable strategies towards leveraging its strength to gain sustainable competitive advantage in the market. (9)
The internal environment plays a crucial role in the strategic management process of the organization. It is a direct reflection of what the organization can do in the event of a business-related exigency. The organization’s core competencies help sustain it in the long run in the face of competition. (10)
The internal environment may also include a Mission statement that tells you...

...End of PESTEL ANALYSIS
environmental protection laws
• waste disposal
• energy consumption
• other resource consumption
• sustainability
Legal influences:
• welfare legislation
• employment law
• health and safety
• consumer protection
PESTEL ANALYSIS FOR A BRAND
Political
Adidas policy is to control and monitor hazardous substance to protect human healthand environment one of those is to eliminate PVC making progress in findingsubstitutes like polyurethane, ethyl vinyl, silicones thermoplastic rubber. Adidas also provide training sessions on employment standards and HR systems, health and safetyis important for the company. Establishing teams to manage and monitor SARS inAsia factory, washing stations, disinfectant units. Finally Adidas protects and supports the rights of its employees by following all the current employment laws.
Economical
As a multinational company adidas helps countries to decrease unemployment byincreasing every year the number of employees. The Industrial Production GrowthRate in Germany was 1% in 2001-3, 2004 become 1.7%. Adidas is a reason of thisincrease Because of the big sponsorship in 2004 Olympic Games. As exporting toEurope is not too expensive as it was before, Europe since 2002 has own money(euro) and the borders are not so tight. Labor salary is high in Germany and France but not so expensive in China (Suzhou). This is the reason that most of...

...well to every environment around the world, the competition out there cannot beat them. Wal-Mart has the best prices as well as delivering their products to their customers in a short amount of time. They are constantly looking for ways to improve their stores; adding new features like layaway or sales on certain items; even changing the color on their logo that is outside every store across the globe.
Tesla Motors
Tesla Motors Incorporated is a Silicon Valley-based company that designs, manufactures and sells electric cars and electric vehicle powertrain components. In 2003 a group of Silicon Valley engineers, Martin Eberhard, Marc Tarpenning, Ian Wright, Musk, and JB Straubel, decided to market and produce the T-Zero prototype electric sports car created by AC Propulsion forming what the world knows today as Tesla Motors. The company is the first to design, manufacture, and sell a fleet of only electric cars and electric vehicle powertrain components. These cars have zero emissions and consumers do not have to compromise horsepower or low mileage making these products ideal for protecting the environment with cars that has no pollutants going into the air. Operating on a global scale shows how these new products are in demand and bringing a new environmentally friendly product to an industry where consumers want environmentally friendly cars. In a world where organizations are trying to eliminate or recycle waste and find new ways to...

...our environment is saving wild life creatures. Cutting down trees is killing their habitat and ways of living. How would you like it if someone came into your neighbourhood and started bulldozing the houses down? Many living species have died because of the habitat changes they have to go through. Many oceans and other water bound areas in the world are being polluted by human waste. It’s killing all water creatures and making water unsanitary. If you really think about it, we, as a community, are murderers for polluting animals’ homes and ways of life. We are killing so many creatures each day because of all the waste we don’t care about and dump into oceans. It really is a horrible thing to think about. The first attempt for wildlife conservation was taken during the 19th century according to the North American wildlife conservation model and it was successful also after that so many initiative were attempted like world conservation agency developed by IUCN in 1980 with the assistance of UNEP and WWF, similarly in 1972 wild life conservation act was also enacted in India. These all have the motto to conserve the wildlife. Than for saving the environment steps were also taken after holding the different conferences like Rio conference in Brazil, CANCUN in Mexico, EUEC [energy utility environment conference] in USA etc. But now the situation says that these were not at all successful in their motto because the rate of extinction of...

...Q.1) Explain How Macro Environmental Factor Affect International Business Product With An Example.
There are many factors in the macro-environment that will affect the decisions of the managers of any organization. Tax changes, new laws, trade barriers, demographic change and government policy changes are all examples of macro change. To help analyze these factors managers can categories them using the PESTEL model. This classification distinguishes between:
Political factors:
These refer to government policy such as the degree of intervention in the economy. What goods and services does a government want to provide? To what extent does it believe in subsidizing firms? What are its priorities in terms of business support? Political decisions can impact on many vital areas for business such as the education of the workforce, the health of the nation and the quality of the infrastructure of the economy such as the road and rail system.
Economic factors:
These include interest rates, taxation changes, economic growth, inflation and exchange rates. As you will see throughout the "Foundations of Economics" book economic change can have a major impact on a firm's behavior. For example:
Economic factors:
These include interest rates, taxation changes, economic growth, inflation and exchange rates. As you will see throughout the "Foundations of Economics" book economic change can have a major impact on a firm's behavior. For example:
* Higher interest...

...For this part of the task I have been asked to explain the term ‘the business environment’ and for each organisation identify the three external factors that which have an impact on the organisation and its stakeholders.
A business environment is the social, technological, economic and political environment in a business functions. They all affect organisations in different ways.
The pestle analysis is a useful tool for understanding market growth or decline, and as such the position, potential and direction for a business. A pestle analysis is a business measurement tool. Pestle is a short form for Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal and Environmental factors, which are used to assess the market for a business or organizational unit.
P – Political Factor
E - Economical Factor
S – Social Factor
T – Technological Factor
L – Legal Factor
E- Environmental Factor
Three external factors that affects Tesco and its stakeholders:
• Political Factor - Government has the biggest impact on Tesco and its stakeholders. The government doesn’t let Tesco to open a new store in United Kingdom because they have already got too many stores in United Kingdom. So that’s why Tesco started to open new stores in other countries.
The map below shows the countries that Tesco operates in.
Political Factor – There is legislation for wages and it’s called National Minimum Wage Act 1998....

...Organizational Culture and Environment
As one of the only major defense contractors, one would think that Lockheed Martin has a different organizational culture and environment than most companies, but in reality they run like any company would but in a unique industry. They specialize in four different business segments including Aeronautics, Space Systems, Electronic Systems, and Integrated Systems and Global Solutions. Their vision statement says, “Powered by Innovation, Guided by Integrity, We Help Our Customers Achieve Their Most Challenging Goals”. (Lockheed Martin, 1) This company works toward maintaining their lead in global security through innovative research and development.
Lockheed Martin’s internal environment is based around three guidelines: “Do What’s Right, Respect Others, and Perform with Excellence”. These values are known among every employee and Lockheed expects them to be carried out every day. Employees are encouraged to use their creativity and skills to challenge themselves to work toward innovation. A major source of the organizational culture is the behavior of the top management. The director of human resources, Max Beal, at Lockheed Martin in Phoenix expressed the importance of employee retention. He asks his employees to give suggestions on how to improve employee retention through things like work flexibility. He has implemented many perks like a sick-child program, an on-site fitness facility,...

...The ‘environment’ is everything happening in the world outside that is relevant to your business. As Baines(2011) describe : “The operating environment for all organisations is never static and seldom entirely predictable, and can therefore profoundly affect a company’s course of action.” Only after examine the nature of the marketing environment, we can therefore set up appropriate marketing strategies for organisation.
Generally, the marketingenvironment can be classified into three levels: the external environment, performance environment and internal environment. Organization may have different degree of influence on each level and elements in each level may also have different impact on organization itself.
The external environment is characterized in two ways. On one hand, the elements do not have an immediate impact on performance of an organization, on the other hand, organization may possess limit power to control them. The most popular framework examine the external environment is known as “ PESTLE” which stands for political,economic, socio-cultural, technological ,legal and ecological environment.
PESTEL analysis of the macro-environmentThere are many factors in the macro-environment that will effect the decisions of the managers of any organisation. Tax changes, new laws, trade barriers, demographic...